Calvin coolidge biography amity shlaes forgotten

Amity Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man: Graphic, a full length illustrated version of the same book drawn by Paul Rivoche, and Coolidge, a full-length biography of the thirtieth president, which debuted at number three on the Times list and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americas Crazy.

National Review called the Forgotten Man &#;the finest history of the Great Depression ever written.&#; The Economist wrote of Coolidge that the book &#;deserves to be widely read&#; and made it an editor&#;s choice for

Miss Shlaes is also the author of Great Society: A New History, a comprehensive account of the Johnson administration&#;s most notable legacy.

Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan praised Great Society as an &#;accurate history that reads like a novel.&#;

Miss Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation